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- the present invention relates to acoustic wave devices including ultrasonic transducers and their usage in the delay lines and rf filters and, more specifically, to very high frequency ultrasonic transducers and devices employing acousto-electric interactions.
- this configuration is represented by opposite signs of piezoelectric coefficients e in the adjacent domains, that is +e for A-type domains and ⁇ e for B-type domains. This reflects a fact that the same type of mechanical strain generates opposite piezoelectric fields in A- and B-domains.
- the crystallographic reference frame is shown by the z- and y-axes that represent a piezoelectric plate of a standard ZY-cut chip.
- Ferroelectric chips are widely used for the fabrication of ultrasonic transducers and surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices for applications in ultrasonics, medicine, telecommunication, etc.
- SAW surface acoustic wave
- U.S. Pat. No. 4,464,639 discloses an interdigital transducer for Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) excitation.
- SAW Surface Acoustic Wave
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,350,961 the inversely poled domains are mentioned in the sense that tiny interdigital electrodes are used to generate the SAW.
- This transducer must have the metal electrodes more thinly than an acoustic half-wavelength.
- FIGS. 2 a and 2 b show two ultrasound transducers disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5 , 360 , 007 .
- the transducers 12 are arranged to have alternately reverse directions of polarizations, and filling members 13 are provided between the transducers 12 so to prevent their lateral coupling.
- the electrodes 14 , 15 are provided, and acoustic matching layers 16 , 17 are formed on the ultrasonic wave transmission surface.
- a substrate 18 is necessary to hold this composite transducer.
- the device has sectional electrode 14 .
- Substrate 18 is essential, and bulk acoustic waves are irradiated in the direction of polarization of the elements 12 .
- Similar devices for composite ultrasonic transducers are often referred to as “ultrasonic transducer arrays” in the art.
- FIG. 3 depicts a multidomain surface acoustic wave transducer disclosed in Patent Application Publication No. US 2002/0135270.
- the reference fails to teach or provide an enabling disclosure to allow one to make a multidomain surface acoustic wave transducer.
- the reference merely presents a theoretical idea about a multidomain film transducer consisting of the inversely poled domains D1 and D2, which are deposited on one or more substrates. Further, this reference does not describe an actual example of a device which could function in a manner speculated in the reference. Therefore, one skilled in the art cannot create such a surface acoustic wave transducer, as one would not know how to construct one.
- All of the aforementioned devices and references relate to bulk or surface acoustic waves that are generated by some composite transducer.
- the current state-of-the-art in high frequency and buffer free ultrasonic composite transducers are limited by about 35 MHz.
- a film transducer consists of a very thin piezoelectric film deposited on a solid buffer. These transducers may be fabricated up to 1 GHz frequency, but it is actually a massive delay line; and, therefore, its size cannot be miniaturized at all. No prior device is able to be incorporated into a wide band ultrasonic transducer or ultrasonic chirp device.
- a principal object of the present invention is to provide a multidomain acoustic and ultrasonic device, such as an acoustic ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic delay line, and an rf filter, employing a set of inversely poled ferroelectric domains that are fabricated within a single block of piezoelectric material.
- Such multidomain ultrasonic devices are achievable through the provision of specifically designed inversely poled ferroelectric domains fabricated and embedded within one crystal body, in which a transformation from electrical energy to acoustic wave/vibrational energy takes place.
- A/C current can be applied to the set of inversely poled ferroelectric domains, and the domains will vibrate with matching phase providing an acousto-electric resonance at the frequencies that depend on the domain dimensions.
- acoustic contact between the ferroelectric domains is essential to provide a desired acoustic wave.
- a multidomain ultrasonic transducer additionally exhibits an ability of operation at very high frequencies up to the terahertz frequency range, and provides an enhanced degree of miniaturization since the ferroelectric domains may be fabricated with the dimensions in the nanoscale range.
- An advantage of this device is provided by a high frequency of operation which permits imaging of micro scale objects.
- a wide band or chirp multidomain ultrasonic transducer can operate in the high frequency range with variable frequencies that are suitable for applications in measuring of thin film or coating thickness, and visualization of micro scale objects.
- the usage of two or more multidomain plate acoustic wave transducers permits one to design and fabricate an ultrasonic delay line operating at very high frequencies up to the terahertz frequency range.
- a multidomain rf filter with operation frequency up to the terahertz frequency range can be fabricated in accordance with the present invention.
- Lower frequency ranges including megahertz and kilohertz bands are achievable as well by fabricating more wide ferroelectric domains with an appropriate ratio of acoustic wavelength and domain width, as the domain resonance occur when the domain width is equal to a half wavelength of the acoustic wave.
- FIG. 1 is a view of a prior art, free periodically poled ferroelectric vibrator.
- FIGS. 2 a and 2 b are sectional views of two prior art intersecting ultrasonic transducer arrays.
- FIG. 3 is a sectional view of another prior art device.
- FIG. 4 is a plot depicting a theoretical dependency of acoustic wave amplitude versus frequency for the multidomain acoustic transducers with different number n of inversely poled domains.
- FIG. 5 is a model of a multidomain acoustic transducer with an acoustic load.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a single piezoelectric crystal in which inversely poled ferroelectric domains are implanted.
- FIG. 7 is a view of multidomain acoustic transducer attached to an adjacent media incorporating the single piezoelectric crystal of FIG. 6 .
- FIG. 8 is a sectional view of a multidomain acoustic transducer, in accordance with another aspect of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a sectional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of two transducers attached to another medium, in accordance with another aspect of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of a sole crystal, in which two wide band multidomain acoustic transducers are fabricated and implanted, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a three dimensional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of a sole crystal with input and output wide band multidomain acoustic transducers, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a single piezoelectric crystal with arbitrary orientation of the crystallographic axes X, Y, Z with respect to crystal surface, in which a set of inversely poled ferroelectric domains is implanted.
- FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a multidomain acoustic transducer fabricated into a sole crystal along with metal electrodes to apply an external rf electric field in the direction normal to a basal plane of a crystal, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a multidomain acoustic transducer fabricated into a sole crystal along with metal electrodes to apply an external rf electric field in the direction parallel to k axis (length of the multidomain transducer) shown in FIG. 12 .
- FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a multidomain acoustic transducer fabricated into a sole crystal along with metal electrodes to apply an external rf electric field in the direction parallel to w axis (width of the multidomain transducer) shown in FIG. 12 .
- FIG. 16 is a cross sectional diagram of a multidomain rf filter in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 17 is a plan view schematic diagram of a multidomain rf filter in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 18 is a multidomain rf filter based on multiple plate acoustic wave transducers, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 19 is an equivalent circuit of the rf filter of FIG. 18 .
- FIG. 20 is a microphotograph of a wide band transducer fabricated in 500 ⁇ m thick LiTaO 3 chip, in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 21 is the oscillogram taken from the wide band plate acoustic wave delay line LTZA11.
- FIG. 22 is a Fourier transform of the output signal from the wide band plate delay line LTZA11.
- FIG. 23 a is a fragment of multidomain plate acoustic wave transducer fabricated in LiTaO 3 single crystal plate;
- FIG. 23 b is a plot showing projections Y′ and Z′ of the crystallographic axes Y and Z, respectively, on a crystal surface;
- FIG. 23 c is a plot showing rotated crystallographic axes Y and Z, where axis Y is rotated at angle ⁇ with respect to the vector normal n.
- FIG. 24 is a frequency dependence of rf impedance measured from the multidomain plate transducer LTYR42B5a.
- FIG. 25 a is an oscillogram of 60 MHz ultrasound burst delayed in water delay line; and FIG. 25 b is a schematic of a model delay line with water as a medium, corresponding to the device of FIG. 9 .
- FIG. 26 a is a microphotograph of a multidomain plate transducer in LiTaO 3 sample LTZ-A9-P22, in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 26 b is a schematic showing the area which is represented in the microphotograph in FIG. 26 a.
- FIG. 27 is a plot of rf admittance versus frequency taken from the sample LTZ-A9-P22.
- FIG. 28 is a plot of output-to-input voltage ratio taken from the multidomain rf filter; sample LTYR42B4.
- FIG. 29 is a plot of computer simulations of the wide band plate acoustic wave transducer described in Example 6.
- FIG. 30 is a computed plot of amplitude v. frequency for the wide band plate acoustic wave transducer consisting of different number (n) of inversely poled domains as described in Example 6.
- FIGS. 6-8 a wide band multidomain acoustic wave transducer is provided in FIGS. 6-8 , where FIG. 6 shows a diagram of the multidomain acoustic transducer consisting of a single piezoelectric crystal 1 in which inversely poled ferroelectric domains 2 and 3 are implanted. The widths of the domains and spacing between them are variable to ensure a wide band operation of the transducer; there is no periodicity in this inversely poled domain array. A collection of the inversely poled domains within the single piezoelectric crystal 1 will function as a multidomain acoustic transducer if an external rf voltage is applied to the piezoelectric crystal 1 .
- FIG. 7 depicts a transducer with metal contacts 4 and 5 which incorporates the single piezoelectric crystal 1 .
- the transducer is attached to an acoustic load 7 that can be any solid, liquid, biological object or gaseous media.
- the acoustic load 7 is attached to the piezoelectric crystal 1 through matching layer 6 .
- An external rf voltage from a rf generator 8 is applied to the metal contacts 4 , 5 .
- FIG. 8 shows a sectional view of the transducer shown in FIG. 7 .
- FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of two wide band multidomain plate acoustic wave transducers made from a single piezoelectric crystal 1 with the inversely poled not periodic domains 2 , 3 of different widths, and with metal electrodes 4 , 5 .
- the transducers are attached to another medium 7 .
- an in-rf-pulse is applied, and plate acoustic wave (PAW) is generated inside the input crystalline plate transducer.
- PAW plate acoustic wave
- This PAW is then propagates inside the medium 7 , and after delay time of propagation enters output transducer that yields output rf voltage.
- a particular feature of the delay line shown in FIG. 9 is the delay medium 7 that may be different material than the in and out transducers.
- FIG. 10 shows another form of the delay line, in which the medium 11 for plate acoustic wave delay is made of the same material that the PAW multidomain transducers.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of a sole single crystal 11 , in which two wide band multidomain acoustic transducers are fabricated and implanted. Two transducers are implanted into a crystalline plate and have a certain distance between them to ensure a needed delay time.
- FIG. 11 is a view of the delay line of FIG. 10 ; the input transducer 9 generates PAW that propagates along the plate 11 and enters output transducer 10 .
- FIG. 12 depicts a single piezoelectric crystal plate 1 of an oblique cut with the rotated crystallographic axes.
- An arbitrary orientation of the crystallographic axes X, Y, Z with respect to crystal surface is given by the angles of rotation ⁇ and ⁇ .
- Laboratory reference frame k, n, w is connected to the piezoelectric crystal 1 edges.
- the angles ⁇ and ⁇ are chosen to increase an electromechanical coupling coefficient that represents an efficiency of a transformation of electromagnetic energy into acoustic wave and vise versa.
- the inversely poled ferroelectric domains 2 and 3 are fabricated and implanted into piezoelectric crystal 1 , which can be a crystalline plate/chip.
- Various methods to fabricate the inversely poled domains may be used, including, but not limited to, those taught by U.S. No. Pat. 5,756,263, herein incorporated by reference.
- FIGS. 13 , 14 and 15 depict three main embodiments for the metal electrodes 4 , 5 .
- An important feature of the present invention is a possibility to apply external rf voltage with the help of respectively large metal electrodes 4 and 5 that can be deposited onto different surfaces of a crystalline plate, as shown in FIGS. 13 , 14 and 15 .
- the electrodes 4 , 5 have the linear dimensions comparable or higher than a whole set of the inversely poled ferroelectric domains, and electrode dimensions are much bigger than a width of a single ferroelectric domain 2 or 3 . This is distinguishable from prior devices such as those of U.S. Pat. No. 4,464,639, in which an interdigital transducer for Surface Acoustic Wave excitation must have the metal electrodes more thinly than an acoustic half-wavelength.
- FIG. 16 is a cross sectional diagram of a multidomain rf filter.
- Input transducer 12 and output transducer 13 have different numbers of the inversely poled domains 2 , 3 .
- Input transducer 12 is designed as a wide band one and output transducer 13 has narrower band of operation.
- a band pass frequencies of the filter depend on the dimensions and number of the domains 2 and 3 .
- the width and length of the domains in output transducer 13 are variable that is transducer 13 has an apodization of its inversely poled domains.
- FIG. 18 depicts an integrated multidomain rf filter consisting of more than one multidomain plate acoustic wave transducers 14 embedded into a sole single crystal 1 along with the metal connecting electrodes 16 and grounded electrode 4 .
- Input rf voltage is applied to electrode 5 , and filtered output rf voltage reads from output electrode 15 .
- An equivalent circuit of this rf filter is shown in FIG. 19 .
- the devices were cut out of the crystalline chips of LiTaO 3 available on the market place.
- the inverted ferroelectric domains with inverse polarization were fabricated by applying constant voltage to certain regions of the device under study. Polarization inversion was achieved under voltage of the order of 21 Kilovolts/mm that was supplied from high voltage generator.
- Equipment used in the examples comprised function generator Agilent 33250A, spectrum analyzer Advantest R3131A, digital oscilloscopes LeCroy 9400 and HP54601A, two-dimensional XY-stage Velmex with ( 1/16000) inch resolution, high voltage supply Glassman 30 kV, computers, optical polarizing microscope and optical binocular microscope, ccd camera, some small components and chemicals.
- Multidomain structures were fabricated in a single crystal lithium tantalite chips as described by Ostrovskii 2005 (1). Thicknesses of the wafers were 350 microns for rotated-cut-wafers and 500 microns for Z-cut-plates. Inversion in polarization is observed when applied voltage is about 21 kV/mm along Z-axis of a crystal. To reveal the inversely poled domains, a chemical etching (boiling mixture of 2 parts of 70% HNO 3 and 1 part of 50% HF) was applied to the samples. Subsequent optical observations through polarizing microscope confirmed the existence of the inversely poled domain arrays in the samples under study. In further experiments, it was observed that the resonance properties of the fabricated multidomain arrays, and their applications in typical plate acoustic wave devices.
- a wide band multidomain plate acoustic wave delay line was fabricated in a chip of a single crystal LiTaO 3 .
- the sample delay line LTZA11 was fabricated in a sole piece of 500-micron thick crystalline plate as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11 .
- Input transducer 9 of 1 mm total length had 28 inversely poled domains with a variable width from 25 microns to 50 microns, and output transducer 10 of 10 mm total length had 268 inversely poled domains with variable width from 25 microns to 50 microns.
- the transducers were fabricated as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 .
- FIG. 20 is a microphotograph of a fragment of this transducer.
- the gray colors are obtained when a micrograph is taken through polarizing microscope; the introduced domains with polarization inversion look whiter.
- the introduced inversely poled domains have clearly variable widths and spacing.
- Distance between the transducers was 3 mm.
- a wide band rf chirp signal was applied to input transducer 9 , and output transducer 10 read a delayed narrow signal.
- FIG. 21 presents the oscillogram of input wide signal and narrow output signal delayed for about 6 microsecond.
- Fourier transform of the output signal is shown in FIG. 22 , which proofs this delay line is the wide band plate acoustic wave device operating in the overall frequency range of 32 to 64 MHz.
- FIG. 24 shows the rf impedance of this transducer as a function of frequency.
- a good “resonance-anti resonance” dependency is detected near 60 MHz.
- the transducer was acoustically loaded.
- the resonance observed is a pure “multidomain resonance.” It means that a set of inversely poled domains posses its own vibration resonance despite a crystal length, which is much longer than any dimension of a single domain.
- the resonance frequency becomes higher when the domain width is smaller.
- the multidomain structure with variable domain width from 7 to 14 microns was fabricated. It is shown in the microphotograph of this transducer presented in FIG. 26 ; sample LTZ-A9-P22. Inversely poled domains appeared to have different gray scale color when observed through optical polarizing microscope. The embodiment of this transducer is depicted in FIGS. 26 b and 14 , where a dashed area corresponds to the multidomain array pictured.
- FIG. 27 presents rf admittance versus frequency taken from the sample LTZ-A9-P22 at third harmonic. It is clearly observed a set of resonance picks in the range 0.56 GHz to 0.59 GHz. Without committing to a single theory, the extremes in FIG. 27 appear presumably due to acousto-electric properties of the multidomain plate acoustic wave transducer with active micro-domain structure designed for very high frequency operation.
- a multidomain rf filter was fabricated having a filter consisting of two multidomain plate acoustic wave transducers in accordance with the device of FIG. 16 .
- the input and output transducers had length of 2 mm, and the width of a single domain was 23 microns.
- An rf signal of constant/flat amplitude in a wide frequency range of 70 MHz to 170 MHz was applied to input transducer, and output signal was detected from output transducer.
- the output rf voltage was further analyzed, and a frequency dependency of the ratio K of output-to-input voltage is presented in FIG. 28 .
- a transmission function K(f) has a clear sharp peak near 120 MHz, and so demonstrates a property of rf filter.
- the results of computer simulations of the wide band plate acoustic wave transducer are provided.
- the lithium tantalite transducer is excited by applying an input chirp rf voltage to the electrode 5 , as shown in FIG. 29 .
- the chirp rf current is converted into a chirp acoustic wave that is directed into adjacent water medium 7 through matching layer 6 , using the corresponding model of FIG. 5 .
- the total number of ferroelectric domains n was varying from 25 to 266.
- the domain widths within multidomain array were varying from 25 to 50 microns.
- Theoretically obtained time envelope of electrical energy transformation into ultrasound is shown on the top of FIG. 29 . It is in agreement with the experimental results presented in FIG. 21 . Acoustic amplitude versus frequency is shown in FIG. 30 for three different total numbers n of the domains. As number n increases, more frequencies in the acoustic signal is present. A spectrum of the input chirp signal was 40 to 80 MHz, and consequently the acoustic wave excited is in the range of 40 to 80 MHz. The theoretical results are in agreement with the experimental measurements in the range 32 to 64 MHz from the sample LTZA11 presented in FIGS. 21 and 22 .
- the present invention offers advantages and features over prior devices.
- the present invention provides for a completely new property in a multidomain transducer in the form of its ability to generate different type of the acoustic waves, for example longitudinal and transversal at different fundamental frequencies.
- the present invention is distinct from prior devices in that the present devices only require two electric contacts that supply electric voltage to the completely multidomain array. This is in contrast with the prior art device of FIG. 2 , where many electrical contacts or separated domains are needed for ultrasonic composite transducer to operate.
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- This application claims priority to U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/825,194, filed Sep. 11, 2006, herein incorporated by reference.
- The present invention relates to acoustic wave devices including ultrasonic transducers and their usage in the delay lines and rf filters and, more specifically, to very high frequency ultrasonic transducers and devices employing acousto-electric interactions.
- The fabrication of periodic inversely poled structures in bulk ferroelectrics was first developed over two decades ago. Since then, some main areas of research include the fabrication of inversely poled micro-domains in bulk ferroelectric crystals, and their possible applications for bulk acoustic wave ultrasonic transducers. Different bulk ferroelectric crystals (LiNbO3, LiTaO3, KTiOPO4, and BaTiO3) with one-dimensional periodic domain structures have been reported in a bulk media, but without specific applications for the acoustic devices, and without the embodiments of possible devices. The domain walls and associated complexes of crystal lattice defects also have been reported to be responsible for a new type of nonlinear ultrasonic attenuation in lithium niobate.
- Recently, a domain resonance in two-dimensional periodically poled ferroelectric plates has been reported in Ostrovskii, A. B. Nadtochiy, Applied Physics Letters, 86, 222902, (2005) (hereinafter “Ostrovskii 2005 (1)”). In one prior art free periodically poled ferroelectric vibrator disclosed in Ostrovskii 2005 (1) and I. V. Ostrovskii, A. B. Nadtochiy, Free Vibration of Periodically Poled Ferroelectric Plate, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 99, p. 114106 (2006) (hereinafter “Ostrovskii 2006”), and shown in
FIG. 1 , the periodically poled multidomain free vibrator of the length L=2dN and thickness 2t consists of the differently polarized regions denoted as A1 and B1 named inversely polled ferroelectric domains. They have opposite directions of their axes of polarization shown as +z and −z. Mathematically this configuration is represented by opposite signs of piezoelectric coefficients e in the adjacent domains, that is +e for A-type domains and −e for B-type domains. This reflects a fact that the same type of mechanical strain generates opposite piezoelectric fields in A- and B-domains. The crystallographic reference frame is shown by the z- and y-axes that represent a piezoelectric plate of a standard ZY-cut chip. It has been shown that rf-admittance demonstrated a resonance-antiresonance behavior as disclosed in Ostrovskii 2005 (1); and I. V. Ostrovskii, A. B. Nadtochiy, Acousto-electric Characteristics of Periodically Poled Ferroelectric Plate, Condensed Matter, 0503/0503222 (2005) (hereinafter “Ostrovskii 2005 (2)”); and amplitude of free vibrations had maximum at certain frequency as taught by Ostrovskii 2006. - Ferroelectric chips are widely used for the fabrication of ultrasonic transducers and surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices for applications in ultrasonics, medicine, telecommunication, etc.
- U.S. Pat. No. 4,464,639 discloses an interdigital transducer for Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) excitation. In this patent and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,350,961, the inversely poled domains are mentioned in the sense that tiny interdigital electrodes are used to generate the SAW. This transducer must have the metal electrodes more thinly than an acoustic half-wavelength.
- This requirement yields a technological restriction on upper limiting frequency since photolithographic technology can not make a very thin and still reliable electrodes needed for very high frequencies in the gigahertz frequency range. A problem is the metal interdigital electrodes must be too narrow (about 210 nm) for lithographic process and, in addition, these narrow metal electrodes are not stable over time as shown by Colin K. Campbell, “Understanding Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices for Mobile and Wireless Applications and Design Techniques,” (2004) (hereinafter “Campbell”). Another limiting issue is the nature of the surface acoustic waves propagating along crystal surface. In the case of very high frequencies of the gigahertz frequency range, a quality of mechanical polishing of a crystal surface becomes unsatisfactory, and high SAW attenuation does not permit one to fabricate a delay line. Industrial-scale SAW-device production based on optical lithography is feasible up to 2.5 GHz (2.5×109 Hz) (as shown by Hiroyuki Odagawa, and Kazuhiko Yamanouchi, SAW devices beyond 5 GHz., International Jour. High Speed Electronics and Systems, V. 10, N. 4, 111-1142 (2000) (hereinafter “Odagawa et al.”)), which is consistent with present global UMTS standard for 2 GHz communication in S-band of Super High Frequency (SHF). Due to commercial and security applications, it is anticipated that there will be an increase in operation frequency and subsequent shift to the range of 2 to 10 GHz range as shown by Campbell; Odagawa and S. Lethonen et al., “Surface acoustic wave impedance element filters for 5 GHz.”, Applied Phys. Letters, V. 75, N. 1. p. 142-144 (1999). Unfortunately, there is no current technology for very high frequency acousto-electric devices.
- With regard to prior periodically poled ultrasonic transducers, the prior transducers consist of an array of inversely poled small single ceramic transducers that are brought together in one composite embodiment.
FIGS. 2 a and 2 b show two ultrasound transducers disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,360,007 . InFIG. 2 a, thetransducers 12 are arranged to have alternately reverse directions of polarizations, and fillingmembers 13 are provided between thetransducers 12 so to prevent their lateral coupling. Theelectrodes matching layers substrate 18 is necessary to hold this composite transducer. InFIG. 2 b, the device hassectional electrode 14. In both cases, there is no acoustical coupling between the singlepiezoelectric elements 12 with inverse polarization.Substrate 18 is essential, and bulk acoustic waves are irradiated in the direction of polarization of theelements 12. Similar devices for composite ultrasonic transducers are often referred to as “ultrasonic transducer arrays” in the art. - High frequency or wide band ultrasonic transducers directed for use as bulk acoustic waves, consist of a thin piezoelectric film deposited on a substrate. For example,
FIG. 3 depicts a multidomain surface acoustic wave transducer disclosed in Patent Application Publication No. US 2002/0135270. Unfortunately, the reference fails to teach or provide an enabling disclosure to allow one to make a multidomain surface acoustic wave transducer. The reference merely presents a theoretical idea about a multidomain film transducer consisting of the inversely poled domains D1 and D2, which are deposited on one or more substrates. Further, this reference does not describe an actual example of a device which could function in a manner speculated in the reference. Therefore, one skilled in the art cannot create such a surface acoustic wave transducer, as one would not know how to construct one. - All of the aforementioned devices and references relate to bulk or surface acoustic waves that are generated by some composite transducer. The current state-of-the-art in high frequency and buffer free ultrasonic composite transducers are limited by about 35 MHz. For example, for bulk acoustic waves, a film transducer consists of a very thin piezoelectric film deposited on a solid buffer. These transducers may be fabricated up to 1 GHz frequency, but it is actually a massive delay line; and, therefore, its size cannot be miniaturized at all. No prior device is able to be incorporated into a wide band ultrasonic transducer or ultrasonic chirp device.
- There is a need in the art for new micro/nano technology designed for higher frequency acoustic devices, especially those designed for planar technology.
- A principal object of the present invention is to provide a multidomain acoustic and ultrasonic device, such as an acoustic ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic delay line, and an rf filter, employing a set of inversely poled ferroelectric domains that are fabricated within a single block of piezoelectric material. Such multidomain ultrasonic devices are achievable through the provision of specifically designed inversely poled ferroelectric domains fabricated and embedded within one crystal body, in which a transformation from electrical energy to acoustic wave/vibrational energy takes place. For example, A/C current can be applied to the set of inversely poled ferroelectric domains, and the domains will vibrate with matching phase providing an acousto-electric resonance at the frequencies that depend on the domain dimensions. In such a device, acoustic contact between the ferroelectric domains is essential to provide a desired acoustic wave.
- Further, a multidomain ultrasonic transducer according to one form of the invention additionally exhibits an ability of operation at very high frequencies up to the terahertz frequency range, and provides an enhanced degree of miniaturization since the ferroelectric domains may be fabricated with the dimensions in the nanoscale range. An advantage of this device is provided by a high frequency of operation which permits imaging of micro scale objects.
- According to one aspect of the invention, a wide band or chirp multidomain ultrasonic transducer can operate in the high frequency range with variable frequencies that are suitable for applications in measuring of thin film or coating thickness, and visualization of micro scale objects.
- The usage of two or more multidomain plate acoustic wave transducers permits one to design and fabricate an ultrasonic delay line operating at very high frequencies up to the terahertz frequency range.
- A multidomain rf filter with operation frequency up to the terahertz frequency range can be fabricated in accordance with the present invention. Lower frequency ranges including megahertz and kilohertz bands are achievable as well by fabricating more wide ferroelectric domains with an appropriate ratio of acoustic wavelength and domain width, as the domain resonance occur when the domain width is equal to a half wavelength of the acoustic wave.
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FIG. 1 is a view of a prior art, free periodically poled ferroelectric vibrator. -
FIGS. 2 a and 2 b are sectional views of two prior art intersecting ultrasonic transducer arrays. -
FIG. 3 is a sectional view of another prior art device. -
FIG. 4 is a plot depicting a theoretical dependency of acoustic wave amplitude versus frequency for the multidomain acoustic transducers with different number n of inversely poled domains. -
FIG. 5 is a model of a multidomain acoustic transducer with an acoustic load. -
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a single piezoelectric crystal in which inversely poled ferroelectric domains are implanted. -
FIG. 7 is a view of multidomain acoustic transducer attached to an adjacent media incorporating the single piezoelectric crystal ofFIG. 6 . -
FIG. 8 is a sectional view of a multidomain acoustic transducer, in accordance with another aspect of the present invention. -
FIG. 9 is a sectional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of two transducers attached to another medium, in accordance with another aspect of the present invention. -
FIG. 10 is a sectional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of a sole crystal, in which two wide band multidomain acoustic transducers are fabricated and implanted, in accordance with the present invention. -
FIG. 11 is a three dimensional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of a sole crystal with input and output wide band multidomain acoustic transducers, in accordance with the present invention. -
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a single piezoelectric crystal with arbitrary orientation of the crystallographic axes X, Y, Z with respect to crystal surface, in which a set of inversely poled ferroelectric domains is implanted. -
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a multidomain acoustic transducer fabricated into a sole crystal along with metal electrodes to apply an external rf electric field in the direction normal to a basal plane of a crystal, in accordance with the present invention. -
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a multidomain acoustic transducer fabricated into a sole crystal along with metal electrodes to apply an external rf electric field in the direction parallel to k axis (length of the multidomain transducer) shown inFIG. 12 . -
FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a multidomain acoustic transducer fabricated into a sole crystal along with metal electrodes to apply an external rf electric field in the direction parallel to w axis (width of the multidomain transducer) shown inFIG. 12 . -
FIG. 16 is a cross sectional diagram of a multidomain rf filter in accordance with the present invention. -
FIG. 17 is a plan view schematic diagram of a multidomain rf filter in accordance with the present invention. -
FIG. 18 is a multidomain rf filter based on multiple plate acoustic wave transducers, in accordance with the present invention. -
FIG. 19 is an equivalent circuit of the rf filter ofFIG. 18 . -
FIG. 20 is a microphotograph of a wide band transducer fabricated in 500 μm thick LiTaO3 chip, in accordance with the present invention. -
FIG. 21 is the oscillogram taken from the wide band plate acoustic wave delay line LTZA11. -
FIG. 22 is a Fourier transform of the output signal from the wide band plate delay line LTZA11. -
FIG. 23 a is a fragment of multidomain plate acoustic wave transducer fabricated in LiTaO3 single crystal plate;FIG. 23 b is a plot showing projections Y′ and Z′ of the crystallographic axes Y and Z, respectively, on a crystal surface; andFIG. 23 c is a plot showing rotated crystallographic axes Y and Z, where axis Y is rotated at angle α with respect to the vector normal n. -
FIG. 24 is a frequency dependence of rf impedance measured from the multidomain plate transducer LTYR42B5a. -
FIG. 25 a is an oscillogram of 60 MHz ultrasound burst delayed in water delay line; andFIG. 25 b is a schematic of a model delay line with water as a medium, corresponding to the device ofFIG. 9 . -
FIG. 26 a is a microphotograph of a multidomain plate transducer in LiTaO3 sample LTZ-A9-P22, in accordance with the present invention; andFIG. 26 b is a schematic showing the area which is represented in the microphotograph inFIG. 26 a. -
FIG. 27 is a plot of rf admittance versus frequency taken from the sample LTZ-A9-P22. -
FIG. 28 is a plot of output-to-input voltage ratio taken from the multidomain rf filter; sample LTYR42B4. -
FIG. 29 is a plot of computer simulations of the wide band plate acoustic wave transducer described in Example 6. -
FIG. 30 is a computed plot of amplitude v. frequency for the wide band plate acoustic wave transducer consisting of different number (n) of inversely poled domains as described in Example 6. - In the description to follow, like reference numbers are used to identify like elements. Referring now to the figures, a wide band multidomain acoustic wave transducer is provided in
FIGS. 6-8 , whereFIG. 6 shows a diagram of the multidomain acoustic transducer consisting of a singlepiezoelectric crystal 1 in which inversely poledferroelectric domains piezoelectric crystal 1 will function as a multidomain acoustic transducer if an external rf voltage is applied to thepiezoelectric crystal 1. -
FIG. 7 depicts a transducer withmetal contacts piezoelectric crystal 1. The transducer is attached to anacoustic load 7 that can be any solid, liquid, biological object or gaseous media. Theacoustic load 7 is attached to thepiezoelectric crystal 1 throughmatching layer 6. An external rf voltage from arf generator 8 is applied to themetal contacts FIG. 8 shows a sectional view of the transducer shown inFIG. 7 . - Two forms of a wide band multidomain plate acoustic wave delay line in accordance with the present invention are shown in
FIGS. 9 and 10 .FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of two wide band multidomain plate acoustic wave transducers made from a singlepiezoelectric crystal 1 with the inversely poled notperiodic domains metal electrodes medium 7. To the input transducer, an in-rf-pulse is applied, and plate acoustic wave (PAW) is generated inside the input crystalline plate transducer. This PAW is then propagates inside themedium 7, and after delay time of propagation enters output transducer that yields output rf voltage. A particular feature of the delay line shown inFIG. 9 is thedelay medium 7 that may be different material than the in and out transducers. -
FIG. 10 shows another form of the delay line, in which the medium 11 for plate acoustic wave delay is made of the same material that the PAW multidomain transducers.FIG. 10 is a sectional view of a wide band multidomain acoustic delay line consisting of a solesingle crystal 11, in which two wide band multidomain acoustic transducers are fabricated and implanted. Two transducers are implanted into a crystalline plate and have a certain distance between them to ensure a needed delay time.FIG. 11 is a view of the delay line ofFIG. 10 ; theinput transducer 9 generates PAW that propagates along theplate 11 and entersoutput transducer 10. -
FIG. 12 depicts a singlepiezoelectric crystal plate 1 of an oblique cut with the rotated crystallographic axes. An arbitrary orientation of the crystallographic axes X, Y, Z with respect to crystal surface is given by the angles of rotation α and β. Laboratory reference frame k, n, w is connected to thepiezoelectric crystal 1 edges. Usually the angles α and β are chosen to increase an electromechanical coupling coefficient that represents an efficiency of a transformation of electromagnetic energy into acoustic wave and vise versa. To fabricate the transducer, the inversely poledferroelectric domains piezoelectric crystal 1, which can be a crystalline plate/chip. Various methods to fabricate the inversely poled domains may be used, including, but not limited to, those taught by U.S. No. Pat. 5,756,263, herein incorporated by reference. -
FIGS. 13 , 14 and 15 depict three main embodiments for themetal electrodes large metal electrodes FIGS. 13 , 14 and 15. Theelectrodes ferroelectric domain - Two multidomain rf filters are depicted in
FIGS. 16 , 17 and 18.FIG. 16 is a cross sectional diagram of a multidomain rf filter.Input transducer 12 andoutput transducer 13 have different numbers of the inversely poleddomains Input transducer 12 is designed as a wide band one andoutput transducer 13 has narrower band of operation. A band pass frequencies of the filter depend on the dimensions and number of thedomains FIG. 17 , the width and length of the domains inoutput transducer 13 are variable that istransducer 13 has an apodization of its inversely poled domains. -
FIG. 18 depicts an integrated multidomain rf filter consisting of more than one multidomain plateacoustic wave transducers 14 embedded into a solesingle crystal 1 along with themetal connecting electrodes 16 and groundedelectrode 4. Input rf voltage is applied toelectrode 5, and filtered output rf voltage reads fromoutput electrode 15. An equivalent circuit of this rf filter is shown inFIG. 19 . One can design any frequency characteristic of this rf filter by using thetransducers 14 with different number of the inversely poled domains and variable dimensions of the single domains including altering of their width and length. - In order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention, reference is made to the following non-limiting examples.
- To verify feasibility and performance of the multidomain plate acoustic wave devices, in the examples that follow, the devices were cut out of the crystalline chips of LiTaO3 available on the market place. The inverted ferroelectric domains with inverse polarization were fabricated by applying constant voltage to certain regions of the device under study. Polarization inversion was achieved under voltage of the order of 21 Kilovolts/mm that was supplied from high voltage generator. Equipment used in the examples comprised function generator Agilent 33250A, spectrum analyzer Advantest R3131A, digital oscilloscopes LeCroy 9400 and HP54601A, two-dimensional XY-stage Velmex with ( 1/16000) inch resolution, high
voltage supply Glassman 30 kV, computers, optical polarizing microscope and optical binocular microscope, ccd camera, some small components and chemicals. - Multidomain structures were fabricated in a single crystal lithium tantalite chips as described by Ostrovskii 2005 (1). Thicknesses of the wafers were 350 microns for rotated-cut-wafers and 500 microns for Z-cut-plates. Inversion in polarization is observed when applied voltage is about 21 kV/mm along Z-axis of a crystal. To reveal the inversely poled domains, a chemical etching (boiling mixture of 2 parts of 70% HNO3 and 1 part of 50% HF) was applied to the samples. Subsequent optical observations through polarizing microscope confirmed the existence of the inversely poled domain arrays in the samples under study. In further experiments, it was observed that the resonance properties of the fabricated multidomain arrays, and their applications in typical plate acoustic wave devices.
- A Wide Band Multidomain Plate Acoustic Wave Delay Line
- A wide band multidomain plate acoustic wave delay line was fabricated in a chip of a single crystal LiTaO3. The sample delay line LTZA11 was fabricated in a sole piece of 500-micron thick crystalline plate as shown in
FIGS. 10 and 11 .Input transducer 9 of 1 mm total length had 28 inversely poled domains with a variable width from 25 microns to 50 microns, andoutput transducer 10 of 10 mm total length had 268 inversely poled domains with variable width from 25 microns to 50 microns. The transducers were fabricated as shown inFIGS. 6 and 7 .FIG. 20 is a microphotograph of a fragment of this transducer. The gray colors are obtained when a micrograph is taken through polarizing microscope; the introduced domains with polarization inversion look whiter. The introduced inversely poled domains have clearly variable widths and spacing. Distance between the transducers was 3 mm. A wide band rf chirp signal was applied to inputtransducer 9, andoutput transducer 10 read a delayed narrow signal.FIG. 21 presents the oscillogram of input wide signal and narrow output signal delayed for about 6 microsecond. Fourier transform of the output signal is shown inFIG. 22 , which proofs this delay line is the wide band plate acoustic wave device operating in the overall frequency range of 32 to 64 MHz. - 60 MHz Multidomain Plate Transducer
- An important acoustoelectric characteristic is the rf-admittance of the vibrating multidomain structure, since it shows whether the vibrator can be used for rf filtering, and in what frequency range. A fragment of the inversely poled multidomain array in the sample LTYR42B5a is shown in
FIG. 23 . Crystallographic axes of this 350-micron thick sample are rotated as shown inFIGS. 12 and 23 , the angle α=42° and angle β=0°. Two gray colors are obtained when a micrograph is taken through polarizing microscope. Different gray colors correspond to inversely polarized domains; the edges are even, and the engineered domains are of good quality. In this transducer, the total number of the domains is 80 that corresponds to number of inversely poled pairs N=40. -
FIG. 24 shows the rf impedance of this transducer as a function of frequency. A good “resonance-anti resonance” dependency is detected near 60 MHz. The transducer was acoustically loaded. The resonance observed is a pure “multidomain resonance.” It means that a set of inversely poled domains posses its own vibration resonance despite a crystal length, which is much longer than any dimension of a single domain. The resonance frequency becomes higher when the domain width is smaller. - Multidomain Plate Acoustic Wave Delay Line
- Two transducers from Example 2 were used to model a delay line with water as a medium of propagation for 60 MHz ultrasound burst. Experimental arrangement sketched in
FIG. 25 b corresponds to the device depicted inFIG. 9 . InFIG. 25 a, an oscillogram shows an output burst delayed for 5 microseconds in the water. Input signal is at t=0 (its amplitude is not to scale), and output burst is delayed. - A 0.56 GHz High Frequency Wide Band Multidomain Plate Transducer
- To show dependency of the domain resonance frequency on domain width and transducer ability to operate at third harmonic, the multidomain structure with variable domain width from 7 to 14 microns was fabricated. It is shown in the microphotograph of this transducer presented in
FIG. 26 ; sample LTZ-A9-P22. Inversely poled domains appeared to have different gray scale color when observed through optical polarizing microscope. The embodiment of this transducer is depicted inFIGS. 26 b and 14, where a dashed area corresponds to the multidomain array pictured. -
FIG. 27 presents rf admittance versus frequency taken from the sample LTZ-A9-P22 at third harmonic. It is clearly observed a set of resonance picks in the range 0.56 GHz to 0.59 GHz. Without committing to a single theory, the extremes inFIG. 27 appear presumably due to acousto-electric properties of the multidomain plate acoustic wave transducer with active micro-domain structure designed for very high frequency operation. - Multidomain rf Filter
- A multidomain rf filter was fabricated having a filter consisting of two multidomain plate acoustic wave transducers in accordance with the device of
FIG. 16 . The filter was fabricated in a rotated Y-cut chip of ferroelectric single crystal LiTaO3; sample LTYR42B4. Crystallographic axes are shown inFIG. 12 , where the angle α=42° and angle β=0°. The input and output transducers had length of 2 mm, and the width of a single domain was 23 microns. An rf signal of constant/flat amplitude in a wide frequency range of 70 MHz to 170 MHz was applied to input transducer, and output signal was detected from output transducer. The output rf voltage was further analyzed, and a frequency dependency of the ratio K of output-to-input voltage is presented in FIG. 28. A transmission function K(f) has a clear sharp peak near 120 MHz, and so demonstrates a property of rf filter. - Chirp Plate Acoustic Wave Transducer
- In this example, the results of computer simulations of the wide band plate acoustic wave transducer are provided. The lithium tantalite transducer is excited by applying an input chirp rf voltage to the
electrode 5, as shown inFIG. 29 . Further, inside transducer the chirp rf current is converted into a chirp acoustic wave that is directed intoadjacent water medium 7 throughmatching layer 6, using the corresponding model ofFIG. 5 . In the computations by Finite Element Method, the total number of ferroelectric domains n was varying from 25 to 266. To assure a wide band operation, the domain widths within multidomain array were varying from 25 to 50 microns. Theoretically obtained time envelope of electrical energy transformation into ultrasound is shown on the top ofFIG. 29 . It is in agreement with the experimental results presented inFIG. 21 . Acoustic amplitude versus frequency is shown inFIG. 30 for three different total numbers n of the domains. As number n increases, more frequencies in the acoustic signal is present. A spectrum of the input chirp signal was 40 to 80 MHz, and consequently the acoustic wave excited is in the range of 40 to 80 MHz. The theoretical results are in agreement with the experimental measurements in the range 32 to 64 MHz from the sample LTZA11 presented inFIGS. 21 and 22 . - It will now be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention offers advantages and features over prior devices. For example, the present invention provides for a completely new property in a multidomain transducer in the form of its ability to generate different type of the acoustic waves, for example longitudinal and transversal at different fundamental frequencies.
- Further it should now be clear to one of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention is distinct from prior devices in that the present devices only require two electric contacts that supply electric voltage to the completely multidomain array. This is in contrast with the prior art device of
FIG. 2 , where many electrical contacts or separated domains are needed for ultrasonic composite transducer to operate. - Throughout this disclosure, various publications, U.S. Patents and U.S. Patent Application Publications are referenced. All references cited herein are expressly incorporated by reference in their entirety and are considered part of this disclosure.
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